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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:39:45 -0500
From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: another HEADSUP [peter@wemm.org: HEADS UP: you need to install a new kernel before an installworld.]
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Apparently, On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:37:12AM -0800,
	David O'Brien said words to the effect of;

> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:14:40PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > I intend to use this opportunity to make some sparc-specific ABI changes
> > that will be tied to COMPAT_FREEBSD4.
> 
> Considering that there has never been a FreeBSD/sparc64 4.x release, I
> don't understand the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 need.  Can you explain it by chance?

Its purely transitional.  Something is required to be able to do a source
upgrade past the change and COMPAT_FREEBSD4 works.  The difference is we
can nuke any sparc64 specific compat stuff at some point in the future
because its never seen a release.

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